July
2004

Dead Ringers
The Television Series 2
The award-winning series Dead Ringers is back with highlights from its second television series. Highlights include David Dickinson as 'Auction Man', Mastermind getting 'sexed up', and Simon Schama and David Starkey battling it out - literally - in order to become television's leading historian. Others joining in the fun are Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Ozzy Osbourne, Gandalf, Greg Dyke and card-playing comedy duo Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. So take a ringside seat for another TV swipe at the famous - and infamous - courtesy of Dead Ringers.
2 CDs, 2hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 525592 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 525541 £10.99

Journey into Space: Operation Luna
This is the first volume in a new box set of Journey into Space, Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy that stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Journey into Space: Operation Luna contains all 13 episodes of Operation Luna remastered and restored to their most complete versions. Presented in beautiful full-colour packaging, with an accompanying booklet detailing the series' development, this is a key collectable for fans of Journey into Space. Bonus material includes the documentary Journey into Space... Again featuring interviews with Charles Chilton and cast members, plus a rare 10-minute excerpt from the original Journey to the Moon series. The complete series will be released in three box sets, remastered and restored on CD for the first time.
7 CDs, 7hrs approx, ISBN 0563 524898 £60.00

The Navy Lark
Volume 16
Four more classic episodes of nautical mayhem on board HMS Troutbridge. The episodes in this volume are: The Squatters (28 December 1969), The Promotion Ladder (11 January 1970), Stranded (18 January 1970), and The Security Clampdown (22 February 1970).
2 CDs, 1hr 50mins, ISBN 0563 52426X £12.99
2 cassettes, 1hr 50mins, ISBN 0563 524219 £10.99

Steptoe & Son
Volume 12
Enjoy four classic BBC television episodes starring the world’s most famous rag and bone men. In the salubrious environs of Shepherd’s Bush, join the young-ish Harold Steptoe (bon vivant, man of learning, Casanova) and his beloved father Albert (penny pincher, emotional blackmailer, dirty old man) in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.

The four original BBC TV episodes on this volume are: The Stepmother (7 January 1963), Steptoe a la Cart (28 January 1964), The Bonds that Bind Us (11 February 1964), My Old Man's a Tory (8 November 1965).
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 524464 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 524413 £10.99

Available from 19 July 2004

Doctor Who MP3 CD
Tales From the Tardis - Volume One
This first volume of MP3-CD readings features 12 stories of excitement and adventure plus many computer extras. The stories are: The Curse of Peladon read by Jon Pertwee; Kinda read by Peter Davison; Attack of the Cybermen read by Colin Baker; Out of the Darkness – three original short stories read by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant, and Short Trips – six original short stories read by Nicholas Courtney and Sophie Aldred.

For PC and Mac users, this MP3-CD also features a special TARDIS-themed viewer screen, images from the original series, excerpts from other Doctor Who CD releases, web links and additional features. The readings also feature incidental music from the original TV stories.
1 MP3-CD, 9hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 523727 £19.99

Doctor Who MP3 CD
Tales From the Tardis - Volume Two
The second volume of MP3-CD readings features seven stories set in distant times and places plus many computer extras. The stories on the second volume are: The Planet of the Daleks read by Jon Pertwee; Warriors of the Deep read by Peter Davison; Vengeance on Varos read by Colin Baker; The Novel of the Film read by Paul McGann, and Earth and Beyond – three original short stories read by Paul McGann.

For PC and Mac users, this MP3-CD also features a special TARDIS-themed viewer screen, images from the original series, excerpts from other Doctor Who CD releases, web links and additional features. The readings also feature incidental music from the original TV stories.
1 MP3-CD, 10hrs, ISBN 0563 523778 £13.99

Agatha Christie
Just in time for the summer holidays, BBC Radio Collection is publishing a selection of the best Agatha Christie full-cast dramatisations as heard on BBC Radio 4. June Whitfield stars as spinster sleuth Miss Marple and John Moffatt plays the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

At Bertram's Hotel
Miss Marple's niece treats her to a few days’ holiday at Bertram’s Hotel, a dignified establishment hidden discreetly in a Mayfair back street. It's a place where sedate upper class ladies, retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple senses that something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer. Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel, or somehow implicate eminently respectable people staying there?
2 CDs, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 523557 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 38882X £10.99

A Caribbean Mystery
Relaxing in the Caribbean is all very well and is good for the rheumatism, but Miss Marple is bored. Nothing ever seems to happen on the tiny island of St Honoré. Then old Major Palgrave tells her an intriguing story about a double murderer, but just as he is about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wanders. He never does finish the story...
2 CDs, 2hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 524545 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 382961 £10.99

Evil Under the Sun
An exclusive hotel on a tiny picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat for Hercule Poirot from the stresses of criminal detection. But his relaxing holiday comes to an end when a beautiful woman turns up and the quiet and peaceful atmosphere becomes charged with an indefinable erotic tension. When she is found strangled in a secluded cove, Poirot is again on the trail of a cunning criminal. The all-star cast includes John Moffatt, Iain Glen, Fiona Fullerton, Robin Ellis, Wendy Craig, George Baker and Joan Littlewood.
2 CDs, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 494255 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 557184 £10.99

Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot manages to get a berth on the crowded Orient Express and joins a collection of wealthy and glamorous international passengers. One of them makes Poirot a strange offer - saying he'll give the detective 'big money' for his protection. Poirot declines and settles down to enjoy the snowy European landscape. But then a bizarre and terrible murder brings the train to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed twelve times. There is no lack of clues for Poirot - but which clue is real and which is a clever plant? Only one thing is certain - the murderer is still aboard the train waiting to strike again...
2 CDs, 2hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 478349 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 406909 £10.99

Murder in Mesopotamia
Just as Amy Leatheran is about to return to England, she is hired by the celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner to work as a nurse/companion for his wife. Amy has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient’s bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but gradually the secret source of the fear is revealed. When one of their group is murdered, Hercule Poirot tries to solve the case - with just one spot of blood as his only clue.
2 CDs, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 494239 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 389370 £10.99

Nemesis
Miss Marple is totally shocked to receive a letter from the recently deceased Jason Rafiel, an irascible old financier whom she met on the Caribbean island of St Honoré where they worked on a case together. The letter leaves instructions for Miss Marple to investigate a crime after his death. There are absolutely no details about the crime, no information about who is involved, or where or when it had been committed. Miss Marple, of course, is thoroughly intrigued.
2 CDs, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 494247 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 557281 £10.99

Peril at End House
Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera, in the idyllic village of St Loo. Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot meets Nick Buckley, a young woman who is the last in a long line of Buckleys to live at End House, an isolated old place perched on the end of a rocky outcrop. As she reassures the two friends that living there is more fun than it might seem, Poirot’s ears prick up. Nick has had three near-fatal accidents in the past few days. To Poirot, that adds up to more than coincidence. And when Nick jerks away from a bee flying past that turns out to be a bullet, the Belgian knows there is work ahead for the little grey cells.
2 CDs, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 524391 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 477768 £10.99

Sad Cypress
Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman look to be a perfect couple set for a life of ease when they inherit Aunt Laura's considerable fortune. But a poison pen letter begins a chain of events which leads to tragedy and only Hercule Poirot can find out if the case is truly as simple as it seems.
2 CDs, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 524448 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 382643 £10.99

The Sittaford Mystery
A blizzard has hit England. In the tiny village of Sittaford, on the fringes of Dartmoor, a party of six is gathered in Sittaford House, home of Captain Trevelyan. He has rented out the house for the winter and is staying in a nearby village. As evening draws in, a séance is proposed. But it reveals more than they had anticipated - TREVELYAN DEAD, spells out the board. Slowly the table begins to rock and the next word is M-U-R-D-E-R. Is it true? And who would kill a man who doesn’t have an enemy in the world?
2 CDs, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 525185 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 410620 £10.99

Three Act Tragedy
Hercule Poirot, his amateur detective acquaintance Mr Satterthwaite, and the distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange are amongst the guests at a weekend house party being hosted by the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright at his cliff-top house in Cornwall. On the first evening after their arrival, an elderly clergyman falls dead, though he's only had a sip of dry martini. A little later in Monte Carlo, Poirot hears of a similar death. Is it mere coincidence or is there more sinister minds at work? Poirot begins an investigation hoping to halt a third tragedy.
2 CDs, 2hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 494077 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 494069 £10.99